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Hospital da Lagoa

Hospital da Lagoa

Year

1958

Style

Brazilian Modernism

Type

hospital

Oscar Niemeyer designed this hospital as a sinuous 12-story slab that curves to follow the shoreline of Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, making the building itself a response to the lagoon's organic form. Completed in 1959, the structure uses…

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  1. 1958

    Original construction

    Oscar Niemeyer

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